Enclosure Quotes

I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their land. In India, it was the same thing: the population increased at the end of the 18th century when the British took over and Indian lands were colonized. Instead of the land feeding Indian people it started to feed the British empire. So we had destitution. Destitute people who don't have their own land to feed themselves can only feed themselves by having larger numbers, therefore they multiply. It's the rational response of a dispossessed people.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find that I grow fearful as it approaches. It slowly creeps in, enveloping the world around us, fencing us in as if to prevent escape. Like a rolling cloud, it blankets everything, closing, until there is nothing left but the two of us.

The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.

I really like cages.

I am able to take a wire line and go into the air and define the air without stealing from anyone. A line can enclose and define space while letting the air remain air.

He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

The cage is bigger than the ring, and it's a little bit different.

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in.

The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.

Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities. And they can pressurise public administrations to cut taxes, reducing financial resources for maintaining the remaining commons.

The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings.

You have no idea how many times I’ve been barricaded inside a box in my life. I know it’s for my protection. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it. (Kiara)

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.